Colorado State Forest Service

The Colorado State Forest Service provides technical forestry assistance, wildfire mitigation expertise and outreach and education to help landowners and communities achieve their forest management goals. OUR MISSION To achieve stewardship of Colorado's diverse forest environments for the benefit of present and future generations **Who We Are** Established in 1955, the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is a service and outreach agency of the [Warner College of Natural Resources](http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/) at Colorado State University. Headquartered in Fort Collins, the agency provides staffing for the Division of Forestry within the [Colorado Department of Natural Resources](https://dnr.colorado.gov/). We have approximately 100 (full-time and part-time); more than 70 seasonal employees; and [18 field offices throughout the state](https://csfs.colostate.edu/areas/). The CSFS is committed to providing timely, relevant forestry information and education to the citizens of Colorado to achieve resilient forests and communities. Using applied science, we have adapted our focus and approach throughout the decades in response to emerging forestry issues. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, CSFS funding consisted of federal grants (40 percent), state general fund and state grants (26 percent), self-funded operations and other revenues (19 percent), and severance tax (15 percent), together totaling $14.6 million.